Cloth marking device



July 24, 1934- w. E. FlTzPATRlcK CLOTH MARKING-'DEVICE Filed June 16, 1930 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 w. E. FrrzPATRlcK 1,967,528

CLOTH MARKING DEVICE Filed Junel, 1930 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 m INVENTOR ATTORNEYS. l

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CLOTH MARK ING DEVICE s. sheets-sheet 3 Filed June 16, 1950 A2M@ ab@ ATTO NEY- Patented July `24, 1934 PATENT ori-"ICE CLOTH MARKING DEVICE Wilfrid Earle Fitzpatrick, Detroit,v Mich., assigner to The Murray Corporation of America, a corporation of Delaware 4 Application JunelG, 1930, SerialV No. 461,621

10,C1aims. (Cel. :p -36)V Y Y relatively to standards S, S, disposed at the lat- I.

-Although the present invention is referred to merely as a cloth marker, the apparatus disclosed is designed'particularly to mark cloth which is to be made up into seat cushions and back cushions for use in automobiles, and the like. y tfis an object of the invention to provide an organization in which adjustably spaced markers, such as special pens or wheels provided withseparate means for delivering a marking liquid theretc in iine lines, may have a light but reliable rolling 'contact with sheets of cloth supported by means such as awsubstantially horizontal table'. The latter mayv beheld stationary during each marking; and the markers may be so arranged as to stripe or otherwise subdivide the cloth by narrow but distinct lines in preparation for sewing it in Ypleats,-\,yithin which padding may be subsequently stuffed. Preferred embodiments of the invention contemplate the attendance of two operatives facing one another and alternately removing sheets from` an intermittently rising stack; said embodiments may accordingly include not only means to effect a relative horizontal reciprocatory or translatory motion between the mentioned vtableand a bar carrying a seriesof pens or rollers, said barfpreferably advancing in a plane parallel with .that of said `table while the latter is held stationary, but also means for intermittently raising and rapidly lowering said table in a plane substantially at right angles to thatof the mentioned translatory motion.

It Vis a general object of this invention to do away with reliance uponY hand labor, using frames and alchalkwhich tends to produce linesfof undue breadth, in the marking of sheets; and other objects of the present invention, including the provision of yiixed standards which are spaced from the ends of said table and which preferably carry not only guides for the table and guides Afor the ends` of the mentioned rods but also means forf intermittently yand synchronously elevating said ends, may be best appreciated from the following descriptionof an illustrative embodiment of the invention, taken connection with the appended claims and the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 is an elevational view, with partsshown in section.

`thereoflcomp'risesa table T, vertically adjustable ets SB, SB' at the respective ends of the bar B, C0

synchronously advanced by threaded rods R, R. The latter may be rotatable within guide channels C, C on the tcps of the standards S, S; and transmission means includng shafts and gears are shown as employed to rotate the threaded rods R,'R from a motor M,-separate transmission means being used to manipulate thetable T, or its equivalent.

As to preferred details, the standards S, S are shown as secured to a base member 21, upon which the motor M is mounted; and said standards may serve to support not only the mentioned horizontal guide channels C, C but to provide integral vertical anges 22, 22 and 23, 23', oppositely extending and adapted to interiit with anges 24, 24.- and 25, 25', shown as provided upon depressed lateral extensions 26, 26 integral with the 4table T.

The table Tinay carry a stack of say 50-150 sheets for successive removal; and it may be raised and lowered by any suitable means. For example wells 27, 27 provided adjacent'lateral edges of table T by the depression of the extensions 26, 26" may receive the brackets lSB, SB when said table is elevated; and the latter may be not only adjustedbut supported by means including a pair of vertical screws 28, 28', shown as cooperating with threaded socket elements'29, 29 carried by the mentioned extensions. In case rotation is to be imparted to sockets 29, 29', rather than to the screw elements 28, 28 to raise and lower the table T, said sockets may be provided with either manual or power means for their simultaneous manipulation. For example, said screw elements being secured near their upper end by means such as bolts or pins 30, V30 extending through openings 31, 3l in eyes on said screws and through corresponding openings in webs 32, 32 integral With table T,.the respective sockets 29, 29 may each be provided at one end thereof with a retaining collar 33 and at their other end with a beveled gear,-the' illustrated gears 34, 34 being adapted to be synchronously driven from any suitable common source of power such as mentioned 'motor Mby means hereinafter described. Forl example gears 34, 34 may be engaged by gears35, 35 on an inner shaft 36 carrying-special ratchets 37, 37 adapted to impart opposite rotation thereto from motor-driven shafts 38,-as 'by engagement of a splined-on clutch element 39- with either a tablelifting clutch element 39' or a table-lowering clutch element 39". The latter is shown as adapted to act rapidly through gears 40, 40 and chain 49", whereas the latter is intended to act slowly and intermittently through gears 41, 41', a reducer train between shafts 42, 42' in housing 43, a variable-radius crank 44 on shaft 42', a link 44 and a reciprocable arm 45 of the ratchet 37. To vary the movement of the table T per revolution of the shaft 42', the arm 44 is shown as provided with a slot 46 in which a wrist pin 47 Vis adjustable upon the loosening of a nut 48; and balls 49 in tapering slots 50 in an inner member 51 will be understood to bind relatively -an outery member 52 during only the outward'or lifting strokes of arm 45.

As to the reciprocation of marking elementsvP,

during intervals of rest in the elevation of table T, in case manual reciprocation is to be obviated and in order to provide a sliding connection, of dove-tail type, between each bracket SB, SB' and corresponding guide elements such as channels C, C', the latter may include removable sections 53, 58'; and the respective brackets may be provided with cylindrical members 54, engaged by springs 55 in Y corresponding openings in said brackets and including slidable and rotatable thread-engaging pins 56. The object of providing for at least a limited rotation of each pin 56, or its equivalent, may be'best appreciated from an inspection of Fig. `3,-diagrammatically showing thesomewhat elliptical configuration preferably given to the thread-engaging portions of said pins and showing also the relationship to a loop preferably provided in the threads upon the rods R, R near the respective ends thereof, for a reversing effect. By this construction, continuous rotation of said rods may cause the brackets SB, SB', and all parts carried thereby, to reciprocate back and forth across the table T, or its equivalent.

t the respective ends thereof, the guide channel elements C, C may carry plates 5'?, 57 and 58, 58' and also support bearings as shown at 59, 60 and 6l, Fig. 3; an extension or terminal portion 62 at one end of each of the shafts 16, 16 may have secured thereto rotating means such as a bevel gear 63; and any suitable means may be employed to transmit motion from the motor M or its equivalent, to said bevel gears. For example, vertical or inclined shafts 64, may extend through suitable bearings provided by brackets 65, 66, respectively, carried by the standards S, -S,the respective ends of said shafts being provided with beveled gears 67 and 68; andthe latter may be rotated by means such as additional beveled gears 69, terminally provided upon shaft 38. The latter is shown as extending through bearing brackets 70, 70 and as including flexible couplings 71, 71 on opposite sides of a gear housing 72. housing being optionally adapted to receive not only a worm gear but also to provide bearings for a worm and a shaft 72' of the motor M, said shaft containing couplings 73, 74, it Will be seen that manipulation of a suitable switch, not shown, may

. serveto control the'travel of the transverse bar B, as carried by the mentioned brackets SB, SB; and said bar may be provided with any desired marking A`devices, but preferably with such as permit a marking effect during movement in either horizontal direction across the top of table T.

As a matter of economy and practical expediency, even when the marker-carrying shaft cr bar B is not intended to rotate, it may be circular in cross-sectional outline; and it may Said then be held against rotation relatively to the brackets SB, SB', in any suitable manner. For example, each of these brackets may be provided vvith an upstanding lug 75 having a particylindrical face 76 also a transverse opening for some fastening element 77, serving movably to secure a cooperating clamp element 78 having a cooperating semi-cylindrical face 79; and the latter may be yieldably or otherwise held down, during marking operations, by means such aS pivoted bolts 80 carrying Wing nuts 81.

In order to facilitate adjustment of the markers P, (shown as having the form of rollers or Wheels with comparatively sharp edges 82 and adapted to receive rotation by engagement with thegoods) and in order to support thereabove means for the delivery of a marking fluid theremarkers may be carried by bearing organizations each comprising a sleeve 83 and each provided With both anA integral bearing. collar 84 and a removable bearing collar 85; and the latter may be secured by means such asset screws 86, serving also to retain said sleeves upon the shaft or bar 12. v,Oney of the mentioned collars (as the collar 84) may, in some orali instances, be adapted to include or to receive a postV 87, extending upwardly therefrom and serving to support any suitable device for the deliveryof a marking liquid, or. the like. For example, each post may adjustably carry a support 88 for a Wicky or absorbent roller 89, disposedbelow a reservoirl 90,-saidreservoirA being shown as provided .with 4a valved outlet 91,. adjustable by means such as a handle 92, extending through'a cover 93; but it will be obvious that such details as have just been referred to are comparatively immaterial to the broader aspects of present invention,-especially in View of the fact that some or all of the markers P may, if desired have the form of pens or other means forreliably producing narrow and distinct lines even upon fabrics..

The tableT may be reinforced by means such as vertical or other websV 94 therebelow; but so -to when desiredf and at a regulable rate, said Y positioned as vto avoid encounter with mentioned parts or Vwith bearing brackets 95 for shaft 36. Stacks containingV (say) 50 to 100 sheets 96 of a pile fabric, or the like, may be brought to the table on templets 97, lcorresponding in outline to the sheets of a stack and placed upon the table T While the markers 'P occupy some position beyond a rear edge or front edge of said table. It will be understood that said table, after being brought to a level suitable to the intended effect, may remain stationary during each actual marking of a sheet; that the adjustment of crank pin 47 is intended to be such as to compensate the removal of a sheet and that the actual marking may be effected by. means of a marking liquid applied through markers of any preferred type. v Two operatives are ordinarily stationed face to face and one sheet of fabric is removed during a pause after each pass of the. bar B and during a quick compensatory elevation of table T; and av shifting of the clutch element 39, by a lever 98 from a position of engagement with clutch element 39' to a position of engagement with the clutch element 39", Will be seen to have the effect of rapidly loweringtable T in readiness to receive a new stack of sheets.

Although the foregoing description has included complete details of but one embodiment of the present invention, it should be understood not only that various features'thereof might be independently employed but also that numerous modications, additional to any suggested herein, might easily be devised by skilled workers if informed of the foregoing-all without departure from the scope of the present invention, as the latter is indicated above and in the following claims.

I claim:

1. In a marker: a table for the support of superposed sheets to be successively marked, marking elements mounted for reciprocation in a plane parallel therewith and in engagement with said sheets, and driving means for automatically raising said table each time a sheet is marked.

2. In a marker: a table for the support of superposed sheets to be successively marked, a plurality of rotatable marking elements reciprocable means for supporting said marking elements in spaced relationship to one another and to said table and rotatable by engagement with said sheets during reciprocation of the support for said marking element in a plane parallel with said sheets, and driving means for automatically raising said table at the end of each movement of the elements.

3. Inamarker: atable for the support of superposed sheets to be successively marked, a plurality of marking elements, reciprocable means -for supporting said marking elements in spaced relationship to one another and to said table and in engagement with said goods during a relative reciprocation between said table and the marking elements in a plane parallel to said table, and means for effecting such reciprocation, said table being vertically adjustable to bring successive sheets into engagement with the marking elements and provided with means for guiding its vertical movement.

4. In a marker: a table for the support of superposed sheets to be successively marked, a plurality of marking elements supported in spaced relationship to one another and to said table and movable in a plane parallel therewith, said table being provided with means for electing its intermittent elevation toward the marking elements to bring successive sheets into engagement therewith.

5. In a marker: a table for the support of superposed sheets to be successively marked, a plurality of marking elements supported in spaced relationship to one another and to said table, means for producing reciprocation between said table and said elements in a plane parallel with said table, means for raising said table, and driving 7. In a marker: a table for the support of Y superposed sheets to be successively marked, a plurality of marking elements supported in spaced relationship to one another and to said table, a transverse bar upon which said marking elements are mounted, and screw means provided at opposite ends of said bar for intermittently elevating said table in a direction substantially perpendicular to the top thereof to bring successive sheets into engagement with the marking elements.

8. In a marker: a table for the support of superposed sheets to be successively marked, a plurality of marking elements supported in spaced relationship to one another and to said table, a transverse bar upon which said marking elements are mounted, and means for eiecting a relative movement between said bar and said table both in a plane parallel to said table and in a plane perpendicular to said table to bring successive sheets into engagement with the marking elements.

9. In a power driven marker: a table for the support of a stack of superposed sheets, marking means mounted above said table for reciprocation in a plane parallel thereto, means for intermittently elevating said table relatively to the operation of said marking means, means for lowering said table, upon the removal of said stack, to receive a new stack of sheets, and a power device for operating said marker.

10. In a power driven marker: a table for the support of a stack of superposed sheets, marking means mounted for reciprocation in a plane parallel to the table, means for intermittently elevating said table relatively to the operation of said marking means, means for reciprocating the marking means, and a power device for operating said marker.

WILFRID EARLE FITZPATRICK. 

